“It’s 1,960 miles across that Southwest border. It’s some of the roughest, toughest geographical terrain in the world across that border. And so, the notion that you’re going to seal that border somehow is something that anybody who’s been involved in the actual doing of law enforcement–the front office work or the front line work of the law enforcement–would say, ‘You’re never going to totally seal that border.’”

Those are the words that came from the mouth of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to an audience in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday in reference to the U.S.-Mexico border.

She had more to say in the above clip.

It pretty much says it all.

“If Secretary Napolitano were a conservative Republican, the news media would have lambasted her daily and editorial writers would have demanded her resignation. They would have whipped up the public to demand her removal if she were a member of the GOP.”

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is faulted for states such as Arizona taking matters into their own hands. Her alleged lax attitude towards illegal aliens and her opposition to tough law enforcement contributed to Arizona passing its own illegal immigration law.

Last year, Secretary Napolitano’s stripped Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio — also known as “America’s Sheriff” by many admirers who hail him as a hero – of his federal authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants based solely on their immigration status. The federal authorities under President Barack Obama wish to do away with local cops enforcing our nation’s immigration laws.

Arpaio’s deputies attended the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Center in order to be trained for immigration enforcement as part of their regular law enforcement and jail management duties. In addition to the DHS attempting to curtail Sheriff Arpaio’s immigration enforcement activities — he states he will not stop arresting illegal aliens — Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, began to investigate Sheriff Arpaio and his department.

In the same week that the nation’s Homeland Security secretary assured Congress the southern border is more secure than ever, an Arizona sheriff deputy got shot by Mexican drug smugglers and an illegal immigrant drop house got busted in separate areas.

Is it possible that Janet Napolitano misspoke at last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing when she confidently asserted that the U.S.-Mexico border is “as secure now as it’s ever been?” She is after all, the Obama Administration official charged with protecting the country’s safety and securing its borders, said officials at the watchdog group Judicial Watch.

Her words certainly lost credibility because they were delivered within days of two separate incidents that contradict her seemingly delusional assessment of the southern border. Additionally, there has been solid documentation—from the media as well as the government—of a drastic increase in violence by drug and human smugglers that routinely make their way north, according to the legal team at Judicial Watch, a public-interest group that investigates government corruption.

“If Secretary Napolitano were a conservative Republican, the news media would have lambasted her daily and editorial writers would have demanded her resignation. They would have whipped up the public to demand her removal if she were a member of the GOP,” claims political strategist Mike Baker.

Just a few weeks ago a federal report revealed that Mexican drug cartels continue to be the nation’s largest supplier of illicit narcotics and that violent Mexican gangs have expanded into every region of the country, including idyllic rural areas. Thousands of metric tons of heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana and cocaine were smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico in the last year and tens of billions of dollars in drug proceeds flowed back south, according to the Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center.

Weeks before that the Department of Homeland Security issued an alert to warn U.S. law enforcement officers and their families that a deadly Mexican gang is actively plotting to kill them in retaliation for a sweep targeting its thugs. The alert warns cops to wear body armor and vary routes to avoid being tracked by the violent gang that has spread throughout the U.S.

Last week alone, local authorities in west Phoenix discovered about a dozen illegal immigrants and their smugglers holed up on a drop house. A few days later Mexican drug smugglers ambushed a Pinal county sheriff’s deputy in a remote area of south Phoenix and shot him in the stomach. The rugged desert area is well known as a high traffic and drug smuggling corridor.

These incidents seem to indicate that the Secretary of Homeland Security is lying to Americans about securing the porous and increasingly dangerous southern border, according to legal watchdog group Judicial Watch.

Annie sent this in:

Tough to pick a winner in the current administration, but it’s hard to argue with this!

Yes, Janet Napolitano, DEMOCRAT from Arizona, for listing Tea Party protesters, southern Christians, and returning members of the military as potential domestic terrorists and right-wing extremists. You are a dumbass.

For renaming the ongoing “War on Terror” as an “Overseas Contingency”. You are a dumbass.

For dropping the word “terrorism” from the government lexicon. You are a dumbass.

For saying that the terrorist attack on 9/11/01 was really a “man-caused disaster”. You are a dumbass.
 
For claiming that ILLEGAL immigration is not a crime. You are a dumbass.

For declaring that the Canadian border was more dangerous than the Mexican border.  You are a dumbass.

For stating that the Muslim Terrorist attacks on 9/11 came from Canada. You are a dumbass.

For allowing the spread of Swine Flu by not testing travelers from Swine Flu ground zero in Mexico. You are a dumbass.

For comparing a fence along the US southern border to the Berlin Wall. You are a dumbass.

For claiming that Homeland Security’s “system worked” when all could see it failed. You are a dumbass.

For walking back your “system worked” comment with “system failed.” You are a dumbass.

So congratulations Janet Incompetano!

You are the official 2009 Dumbass of the Year!

Deserving of awards and accolades … to have failed so much in one short year, you are the winning loser!

One federal official was conspicuous by her absence at a recent House Homeland Security Committee hearing — the secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano.

The Jan. 27 hearing was called to examine the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Flight 253, but Napolitano sent Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Jane Holl Lute to testify in her place.

Democrats on the committee openly expressed their displeasure with Napolitano as the hearing proceeded, CNSNews reported.

Rep. Chris Carney of Pennsylvania said during his question period: “I am very dismayed that the secretary herself wasn’t here. I mean, it’s probably fair to ask, ‘Where the hell is Secretary Napolitano?’”

Rep. Jane Harman of California declared: “This is the committee with primary jurisdiction over the Department of Homeland Security. She is the Secretary of Homeland Security. She is in Washington, D.C. She was invited to testify at this very important hearing, and she should have been here.”

Two days after the Christmas Day bombing attempt, Napolitano had told CNN that “the system worked,” referring to security measures. According to CNSNews, Republicans on the committee believe Napolitano did not appear at the hearing because she did not want to field questions about that comment.

Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi said the committee had first been told that Napolitano could not attend the hearing because she would be out of the country, then discovered that she was in fact in Washington but would not attend anyway.

Apparently, I wasn’t the only one nodding off Wednesday night.

Jim sent this in:

A federal grand jury in Arizona today began hearing a federal prosecutors’ allegations that the popular Maricopa County sheriff, Joe Arpaio, abused his authority. Sheriff Arpaio garnered national attention with his tough immigration enforcement, and to many Americans is known as “America’s Sheriff.”